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The Royal Horse Artillery, currently consists of three regiments, (1 RHA, 3 RHA and 7 RHA) and one ceremonial unit (King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery). Almost all the batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery have served continuously since the French Revolutionary Wars or Napoleonic Wars , except the King's Troop, created in 1946, and M Battery ...
In 1914, E Battery was sent to France as part of the BEF, equipped with QF 13-pounder guns.At 0930 hours on 22 August 1914, northeast of Harmignies in Belgium, No. 4 gun of E Battery fired the first British artillery rounds on the Western Front in World War I, [5] E Battery went on to fight in many of the battles on the Western Front and then joined the Army of Occupation.
It had a barrel 18 inches (460 mm) shorter, on a lighter and simpler carriage, and it entered service with the Royal Horse Artillery in 1894. The introduction of Cordite also led to the decision that the 12-pounder was capable of firing a heavier shell up to 15 lb (6.8 kg).
The regiment was formed as 5th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery in March 1901 and was renamed 1st Brigade Royal Horse Artillery in October 1906. [3] It served in Iraq in 1920, returned to the Uk in 1923 and served in Egypt in 1931, before returning to the UK again in 1936. [3] It was renamed 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery on 1 May 1938. [3]
Gunners of 7 Parachute Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery, fire their 105mm Light Gun at Taliban positions in Afghanistan during August 2008. In late 2003 the regiment moved from Aldershot to Colchester to join the rest of 16 Air Assault Brigade. 2006 saw the first of the regiment's three tours of Afghanistan. The first of these saw the regiment ...
Horse Gunners: The Royal Horse Artillery, 200 Years of Panache and Professionalism. Woolwich: The Royal Artillery Institution. ISBN 09520762-0-9. Frederick, J.B.M. (1984). Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978. Wakefield, Yorkshire: Microform Academic Publishers. ISBN 1-85117-009-X. Perry, F.W. (1993). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5B.
3rd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (less M Battery) (attached) 106th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (attached) Royal Engineers (attached) 2nd Field Squadron; 141st Field Park Troop; No. 5, 58, 65, and 550th Companies, Royal Army Service Corps; 4th New Zealand Reserve Company (attached) 1st Supply Issue Section, Indian Army Service Corps ...
The Ordnance BL 12-pounder 6 cwt [note 1] was a lighter version of the British 12-pounder 7 cwt gun, used by the Royal Horse Artillery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. History [ edit ]